New paper from the U.S. National Park Service Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division: "Fisheye Night Sky Imager: A Calibrated Tool to Measure Night Sky Brightness" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad6bc1 (open access)
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Our paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on current challenges in measuring night sky brightness (with a particular emphasis on polarization measurements) is now published.
Read it here Open Access: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3538/7425637
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Towards future challenges in the measurement and modelling of night sky brightness
Abstract. In ground-based astronomy, the brightness of the night sky is the limiting factor that determines the efficacy of any particular telescope in terms of
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Dr. John Barentine FRAS